authenticity Quotes

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.